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Sovereign citizens put public servants and safety professionals at risk
Investigative Update Summer 2025 A War of Ideas: The unrelenting propaganda of the Lost Cause mythology GoyimTV relies on other mainstream and extremist sites for hateful content Missouri Minutemen and white nationalist Active Club learning from each other The United States has hundreds of thousands of people who identify as 鈥渟overeign citizens.鈥 Sovereign citizens have…
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Harmful 鈥榯rans shooter鈥 myth widely promoted after Charlie Kirk killing
In the immediate wake of Charlie Kirk鈥檚 killing on Sept. 10, right-wing influencers and outlets promoted disinformation about trans people and the alleged perpetrator鈥檚 gender identity. As the Southern Poverty Law Center has previously reported, this follows a trend whereby far-right propagandists use high-profile incidents of gun violence to push the myth of a 鈥渢rans…
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Georgia teacher suspended for posting Charlie Kirk quote on Facebook files suit
It started like any other day in Michelle Mickens鈥 high school English classroom at Oglethorpe County High School in Lexington, Georgia, near Athens. While teaching poetry to 18 teenagers on Sept. 10, she made a bargain with the class: Work through the day鈥檚 lesson and instead of starting the next day鈥檚 work early, they鈥檇 have…
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Missouri Minutemen and white nationalist Active Club learning from each other
Investigative Update Summer 2025 A War of Ideas: The unrelenting propaganda of the Lost Cause mythology GoyimTV relies on other mainstream and extremist sites for hateful content A militia organizing in Missouri as modern-day minutemen has adopted a model of networking closely with white nationalist Active Clubs, providing a template for collaboration between such groups…
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Killing of lawmaker spotlights Christian supremacy, political violence
The murders of a Minnesota legislator and her husband earlier this year highlight a modern hard-right movement rooted in Christian supremacy. In June, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered in their home. State Sen. John Hoffman of Minnesota and his wife were also wounded in an attack at their home. Vance…
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Attack on public education and free speech rights of educators after Kirk killing
The hard right immediately escalated its attacks on universities and educators in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk鈥檚 assassination. Key leaders blamed 鈥渓eft-wing extremism,鈥 railed against 鈥渞adical left lunatics鈥 and suggested that universities had fostered a climate hostile to conservative thought. Kirk built his career with the organization he founded, Turning Point USA, attacking what…
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Hard right uses Charlie Kirk鈥檚 killing to push common conspiracy theories
In the immediate aftermath of the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk on Sept. 10, social media influencers, media outlets and politicians used the killing to promote some of the hard right鈥檚 often-repeated conspiracy theories that malign various groups of people. These conspiracy theories came before any substantial information was known about the…
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Hard right blames leftist groups, Black criminality for Kirk killing
Hard-right groups and commentators 鈥 particularly openly racist groups 鈥 have used the killing of Charlie Kirk to promote long-held conspiracy theories about supposedly violent, left-leaning groups. Following Kirk鈥檚 killing, hard-right groups pushed conspiracy theories that blamed the left, Democratic Party supporters and Black people, sometimes not differentiating between the three. In other words, hard-right…
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October 2025 Intelligence Project Dispatch: Trends and incidents of the hard right
The Southern Poverty Law Center works to dismantle white supremacy in public forums and online, exposes hate and anti-democracy extremism, and counters disinformation and conspiracy theories with research and community resources. The Intelligence Project monitors and exposes white supremacy and its impact on communities. White nationalist and neo-Nazi movement activity Prevention Anti-immigrant/anti-Muslim activity Militia and…
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A War of Ideas: The unrelenting propaganda of the Lost Cause mythology
Investigative Update Summer 2025 GoyimTV relies on other mainstream and extremist sites for hateful content Missouri Minutemen and white nationalist Active Club learning from each other Earlier this year, President Donald Trump announced that he was unilaterally restoring Confederate names to all nine military bases that had been renamed through a bipartisan process to honor…
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